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External Since: May 02, 2007 Posts: 218

Ace wrote:
> >No, it's your setup, and Champ's setup up, that failing to read it
> >correctly.
>
> Well please explain why it reads the first post correctly, but
> replaces the pound sign with the n-tilde when reading dog's post.
>
> Now it may be that your newsreader displays both correctly, but it's
> quite clear that dog's is changing the character coding in some way
> too.

well, i've changed my setup to completely ignore mime and not send any
mime headers hopefully, so whatever i quote will just be the ascii
payload of whatever anyone originally sent. that may or may not be a
better experience for everyone.
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dog
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External Since: May 07, 2004 Posts: 384

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:05:32 GMT, Ace <seesig DeleteThis @ifrance.com> allegedly
wrote:

> Well please explain why it reads the first post correctly, but
> replaces the pound sign with the n-tilde when reading dog's post.

Ant's post used the ISO-8859-1, and QP encoding.
Dog's port used UTF-8, and straight 8-bit text.

Agent was happy with the former, but not the latter, and the subsequent
posts from you and Champ used basic 7-bit ascii, which changed things
irrevocably.